Benjamin Long MD

Education

Sleep Medicine Fellowship, SAUSHEC, San Antonio, TX, 2020-2021
Pediatrics Residency, SAUSHEC, San Antonio, TX, 2017-2020
M.D., Mercer University School of Medicine, Savannah, GA, 2013-2017
B.S. Biology (summa cum laude), Columbus State University, Columbus, GA, 2009-2013

Biography

Maj Benjamin Long MD is a Sleep Medicine Pediatrician with the dual-board certification in General Pediatrics and Sleep Medicine. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from Mercer University and completed both his pediatrics residency and sleep medicine fellowship at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium. He is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences with academic interests in the impact of pediatric sleep disturbances on service member readiness, as well as other topics to include professionalism education in GME and the intersection of sleep and spirituality/religiosity.

Although his credentialing in sleep medicine is for all ages, Maj Long's passion is supporting the sleep of military children. Maj Long recognizes that disturbances in the sleep of military children is a readiness problem, because "if the child is not sleeping, then service members are not sleeping." As we are entering a new age in the great power competition with medical readiness pivoting within an ACE framework, this becomes even more critical. To sum it up, ignoring the sleep of military children burdens servicemembers with sleep deprivation before they are even called upon to fight.